Oh, come on!. This is getting silly.

Howard D. Eisman, Ph.D.


John Buksbazen wrote:

>  Dr Eisman continues in his angry attacks on "types" of which he disapproves=
> ,=20
> be they "social work psychoanalysts" or "lit-crit types" (his terms). He=20
> seems to forget that he is writing about people, not "types", and that these=
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> people, the vast majority of whom he does not know and who have never harmed=
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> him, don't deserve his evacuating upon them.
>
> In a message dated 12=B030=B02000 3:22:33 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:
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> << Come to NYC and look around. Or ask some NYC psychoanalysts. It is very=20
> obvious
> that what I describe exists. I NEVER MEANT TO IMPLY THAT I WAS DESCRIBING AL=
> L
> SOCIAL WORKER PSYCHOANALYSTS.
>
> Howard D. Eisman, Ph.D. >>
>
>         Dr Eisman is denying today what he posted just yesterday:
>
> <<One motivation for New York City social workers to go to one of our Mickey=
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> Mouse
> "insitutes" is that it offers them a chance to change their title from socia=
> l
> worker to psychoanalyst. They practice "psychoanalysis" out of their husband=
> s'
> offices in the evening, charging much less than the going rate, as they have=
> =20
> no
> overhead and their spousal support limits their monetary needs.  This type h=
> as
> little interest in psychoanalysis as a body of knowledge, nor do they care=20
> about
> controversies or criticisms. They also have little to no experience working=20
> with
> severe mental illnesses, which should be a part of every therapist's trainin=
> g.
> There are non-social workers about whom the above is equally true.
>
> I single out social workers because I remember a time when this field-as did
> psychology-attracted a brighter and more scholastic person. I'll bet that yo=
> u=20
> do
> too.>>
>
> Does Dr Eisman also object to intermarriage between physicians and social=20
> workers?
>
> What do the physician husbands of these women who are Clinical Social Worker=
> s=20
> and also psychoanalysts have to say on the matter?
>
> Who is this Doctor Eisman, and why is he ranting like this? He has a right=20
> to, but how are we to respond to such communications? Perhaps it is a mistak=
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> to respond at all; he only seems to grow more frenzied in his denunciations.
>
> John Buksbazen
> Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute